Soyuz 16

Space mission of Soyuz project
Vehicle soyuz_7k_tm Q847013

Facts

32 properties
Followed by
Soyuz 17[6]
Launch date
1974-12-02
Duration
512,615 second
Apoapsis
291 km
Backup or reserve team or crew
Vladimir Dzhanibekov, Boris Andreyev
Call sign
Буран (Buran)
Coat of arms image
commons.wikimedia.org
Crew member
Anatoly Filipchenko, Nikolay Rukavishnikov
Landing date
1974-12-08
Launch vehicle
Soyuz-U
Location of landing
Kazakhstan[18]
Mass
6,800 kg
Orbital inclination
51.8 degree
Orbital period
89.2 minute
Orbits completed
95
Periapsis
184 km
Satellite of
low Earth orbit
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Significant event
rocket launch, landing[14][15]
Space launch vehicle
Soyuz-U[9]
Time of object orbit decay
1974[13]
Type of orbit
low Earth orbit[10]
UTC date of spacecraft landing
December 8, 1974[12]
UTC date of spacecraft launch
December 2, 1974[11]
🏷️ Also known as
en Soyuz 16 ar سايوز 16 cs Sojuz 16 de Sojus 16 el Σογιούζ 16 fa سایوز۱۶ fr Soyouz 16 he סויוז 16 hu Szojuz–16 hu Союз 16 it Soyuz 16 ja ソユーズ16号 nl Sojoez 16 ru Союз-16 zh 联盟16号 zh-hant 聯盟16號
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Image (Wikimedia Commons)
1975 CPA 4445.jpg ↗
COSPAR ID
1974-096A
Freebase ID
/m/01zb1h
Wolfram Language entity code
Entity["Satellite", "07561"]

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Summary

Soyuz 16 is a Soyuz 7K-TM[1].

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  8. [9] ↑ . Jonathan's Space Report. wikidata.org.
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  10. [11] ↑ . Jonathan's Space Report. wikidata.org.
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  13. [14] ↑ . Jonathan's Space Report. wikidata.org.
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